On 12/30/20 4:18 PM, Insurgo wrote: > Hello there, > > Since a couple of days, it seems that http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ randomly > points to non-functional mirrors to download coreboot relative packages > in CI builds. > > I would say that CircleCI fails 2/3 of the time in current builds, at > different places. > > As you may know, building coreboot requires to download different > tarballs prior of building its own musl-cross toolchain prior of > building coreboot from it. > > In the case of Heads project, which builds boards ROMs for different > coreboot versions, it means that each time that a Heads' module > definition changes, the original coreboot musl-cross related tarballs > need to be downloaded again prior of being in CircleCI's cache for next > builds only related to scripts changes. > > Consequently, in the past (3?) days, CircleCI attempted to download > packages from different ftpmirror.gnu.org mirrors, sometimes being > successful, and sometimes failing after 2h of building time. I'm trying > to build for more then 24 hours now with really low success rate from > that situation, and i'm seeking at least acknowledgement and/or some > advices, since pinning coreboot to selected mirrors would be a hack and > not interesting in the long term. > > > The output exerpt of CircleCI looks like this, which doesn't help much: > > make -C util/crossgcc build-i386 build_iasl SKIP_GDB=1 > bash ./buildgcc -p i386-elf -j 4 \ > -d /root/project/build/coreboot-4.8.1/util/crossgcc/xgcc > Welcome to the coreboot cross toolchain builder v1.52 (June 11th, 2018) > > Building toolchain using 4 thread(s). > > Target architecture is i386-elf > > Found compatible Ada compiler, enabling Ada support by default. > > Downloading and verifing tarballs ... > * gmp-6.1.2.tar.xz (downloading from > https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gmp/gmp-6.1.2.tar.xz)... 0% 2% > 5% 7% 10% 13% 15% 18% 21% 23% 26% > 28% 31% 34% 36% 39% 42% 44% 47% 49% > 52% 55% 57% 60% 63% 65% 68% 71% 73% > 76% 78% 81% 84% 86% 89% 92% 94% 97% > 99%100%... hash verified ("9dc6981197a7d92f339192eea974f5eca48fcffe") > * mpfr-3.1.5.tar.xz (downloading from > https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.5.tar.xz)... 0%... Failed to > download mpfr-3.1.5.tar.xz. > make[3]: *** [Makefile:26: build_gcc] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [Makefile:48: build-i386] Error 2 > make[1]: *** [util/crossgcc/Makefile.inc:46: crossgcc-i386] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/project/build/coreboot-4.8.1' > make: *** [modules/coreboot:75: > "/root/project/build/coreboot-4.8.1/.xcompile"] Error 2 > > CircleCI received exit code 0 > > And where local tests, happening throuhg QubesOS and whonix, tries > different mirrors at each attempt which normally succeed. > > To I guess it comes to where CircleCI's instance is located which > selects failing mirrors. > > > If you can do anything about this, that would be helpful. Currently, i'm > sure everyone using CircleCI to build stuff depending on your mirrors > are having big migraines. > > > Thanks! > > Thierry Laurion > > https://insurgo.ca > All failing builds here are link to this problem (if you want to take a look, would just give proof, but not much more information, since coreboot doesn't output on screen (console) the actual server being used: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/osresearch/heads
Thanks! >
